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July 6, 2012 || Vol. 4, Issue 27
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Funding Opportunities
Statistical Examination of Presidential Pardons
Deadline: July 27, 2012
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is pleased to announce that it is seeking applications for an examination of the processing of petitions for Presidential Pardons. In the federal justice system, commutation of sentence and pardon are different forms of executive clemency, which is a broad term that applies to the President's constitutional power to exercise leniency toward persons who have committed federal crimes. The purpose of this program is to examine how petitions for pardon are adjudicated by the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney. The Pardon Attorney reviews and investigates pardon applications, and prepares the Department's recommendation to the President. Click here for more information.
NIH Director's Transformative Research Awards Deadline: September 21, 2012 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Directors Transformative Research Awards complements NIHs traditional, investigator-initiated grant programs by supporting individual scientists or groups of scientists proposing groundbreaking, exceptionally innovative, original and/or unconventional research with the potential to create new scientific paradigms, establish entirely new and improved clinical approaches, or develop transformative technologies. Little or no preliminary data are expected. Projects must clearly demonstrate the potential to produce a major impact in a broad area of biomedical or behavioral research. Click here for more information. Public Health Services and Systems Research: Mentored Research Scientist Development Awards Deadline: August 8, 2012 (From the Philanthropy News Digest) Public Health Services and Systems Research is a multidisciplinary field of study that examines the organization, financing, delivery, and quality of public health services within communities and the resulting impact on population health. The National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation seek to expand the evidence base for effective decision-making in public health practice and policy through research that responds to the questions defined in the National Agenda for PHSSR. This call for proposals is designed to increase the PHSSR evidence base and strengthen the pool of researchers available to conduct PHSSR. Successful proposals will 1) build PHSSR evidence relevant to public health practitioners and policy-makers; and 2) provide support and protected time for an intensive, supervised career development experience to help junior faculty build research independence. Click here for more information. Research on Psychopathology In Intellectual Disabilities Deadline: May 7, 2015 The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to invite grant applications for research designed to elucidate the epidemiology, etiology, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders, including emotional and behavioral problems, in persons of any age with intellectual disabilities. Although intellectual disabilities and autism often co-occur, other separate FOAs are intended for investigators interested in autism: Research on Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders under the NIH Research Project Grant (R01) (PA-10-158), the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) (PA-10-159), and the NIH Exploratory/Developmental Grant (R21) (PA-10-160) award mechanisms. Click here for more information. Juvenile Protective Factors and Their Effects on Aging Deadline: July 5, 2015 (National Institutes of Health) The purpose of this FOA is to invite both descriptive studies to identify putative juvenile protective factors, experimental studies to test hypotheses about their effects on aging, and translational studies to explore the potential risks and benefits of maintaining or modulating the level of juvenile protective factors in adult life. Juvenile protective factors are physiological factors that maintain or enhance certain functions across all or some stages of post-natal maturation, but which diminish or disappear during transitions between developmental stages (e.g., infancy, adiposity rebound, adrenarche, puberty, growth cessation). This FOA is uniquely focused on studies which involve comparisons between post-natal developmental stages or pre- vs. post-maturational changes to identify potential juvenile protective factors and their effects on aging. Studies in in vitro models, in laboratory animals or in humans may be proposed. Click here for more information.
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Calls
Call for Proposals
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming-Midcareer Consultant Program & Junior Investigator Program
Deadline: August 29, 2012
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming aims to expand the diversity of perspectives that inform Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) programming and introduce new researchers and scholars to the Foundation who would help teams with their research and evaluation needs. The program invites Midcareer Consultants-scholars and Junior Investigators from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to submit proposals to address program priorities for RWJF's teams and portfolios. New Connections is a career development program for early- and midcareer researchers. We aim to enhance the research and evaluation capacity of researchers and consultants from underrepresented groups. Click here for more information.
Call for Reviewers
Help PCORI Evaluate Research Funding Applications
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is seeking scientists, patients, caregivers, clinicians, and other stakeholders to review funding applications for research intended to help patients and those who care for them make better-informed healthcare decisions. Reviewers are highly valued members of the PCORI community whose work is essential to helping us support research that will be scientifically rigorous and truly patient-centered. Click here for more information.
CALL FOR PAPERS Social Work and Christianity: Towards A Christian Critique of Evidence-based Practice in Social Work Deadline: September 1, 2012 Guest Editors: Michael S. Kelly, Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work & Cynthia Franklin, University of Texas-Austin Evidence-based Practice (EBP) is now entering its second decade in social work scholarship and practice. This special issue seeks to add a Christian perspective to the literature on the implementation of EBP in social work practice, policy, and education and to expand the epistemological and practical discussions about EBP to add a further (and we believe, necessary) complication to the debate over EBP in social work: namely, how can EBP be practiced in the multitude of Christian social work contexts we see around the world? Whether it is related to the faith of the client, the faith of the social work practitioner, the organization they work in, or some combination of all three, EBP offers both possibilities and challenges to Christians seeking to access services or deliver services effectively. This special issue seeks to further debate the pros and cons of using EBP in social work by asking simply, "How can Christian social workers incorporate EBP into their work?" Papers for this special issue are encouraged to look at EBP as a process that integrates clinical expertise, client circumstances, research evidence, and client values and to formulate a paper discussing one or all of those dimension from a Christian perspective. Papers can employ a variety of methodologies, though special emphasis will be given to papers that use a conceptual lens to build a foundation to either critique or defend EBP from a Christian social work perspective. Papers can be up to 20 pages, double-spaced and in APA style (6th Ed.) and are due by September 1st, 2012. Contact mkell17@luc.edu with any questions and to submit papers as email attachments.
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Conferences & Trainings
7th Biennial Adoption Conference
October 18-20, 2012
Race, Religion, and Rescue in Adoption
Aware of the fact that an increased number of individuals in our society are looking at adoption as a legitimate way to form their families; and aware of the fact, as well, of the many fundamental and unanswered questions raised by these individuals as they face the numerous and complex challenges associated with the adoption experience, for which they were unprepared; and finally, aware of the fact that the professional and academic community has been ill-prepared to address these questions adequately, St. John's University decided to create a structure where answers to the many challenges affecting the lives of members of the adoption triad are systematically addressed. Click here for more information.
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Research Publications & Data Resources
Report Summarizes BJS PREA Data Collection Activities
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has released "PREA Data Collection Activities, 2012" (NCJ 238640, 4 pp.). The Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79) requires the Attorney General to submit to Congress, not later than June 30 of each year, a report on the activities of BJS for the preceding calendar year. This document fulfills this requirement. Click here to read more.
Recently Released Reports The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) recently released a few reports. -Catalog of Research: Programs for Low-Income Couples -Validation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Care and Education and School-Age Care -Locating and Engaging Youth after They Leave Foster Care: Experiences Fielding the Multi-Site Evaluation of Foster Youth Programs -Piloting a Community Healthy Marriage Initiative: Marion County, Indiana; Clark County, Ohio; Lakewood, Washington; Yakima, Washington Click here to read more. ICPSR New Additions The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for a diverse and expanding social science research community. Below is a list of new data collection additions to the ICPSR data archive: -25922 National Impact Evaluation of Victim Programs Through the S.T.O.P. Violence Against Women Formula Program, United States, 2000-2001 -32446 Surveys of Consumers, May 2003 -32449 Surveys of Consumers, August 2003 -33524 Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: Hate Crime Data, 2010 -33530 Uniform Crime Reporting: National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2010 -33601 National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2010: Extract Files -34007 Afrobarometer Round 4: The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Mozambique, 2008 -34012 Afrobarometer Round 4: The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Tanzania, 2008 Click here for more information. Child Welfare Information Gateway Below is a list of new publications that were added to Child Welfare Information Gateway Library in June: -How Do We Measure and Monitor the "State of Our Children"?: Revisiting the Topic in Honor of Sheila B. Kamerman; Ben-Arieh, Asher. -New Requirement Regarding Educational Stability of Foster Children -Michigan Foster Care Review Board 2011 Annual Report: Parent-Child Visitation -Expected Struggles: U.S. Child Care Policy? Palley, Elizabeth -Mapping the Critical Service Needs of Adolescent Children of Prisoners; Johnson, Toni Click here for more information.
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News & Notices
CALL FOR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs), SSWR 2013 In order to facilitate the meetings of special interest groups (SIGs), it is necessary that all pre-existing and new SIGs notify us in advance so that we can collect the convener contact information and schedule the groups and meeting space for you. If you would like to convene one of the previous groups or convene a new group, please complete the online survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013SIGS by July 31, 2012. If we do not hear from you by this date, we will assume that the SIG with which you are associated does not plan to convene during the 2013 conference. The SIGs will be scheduled for either Friday (January 18) or Saturday (January 19), 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. Due to the complexity of the schedule we cannot consider scheduling requests. Meeting space is limited. We will confirm your request via e-mail by September 2012. Confirmed SIGs will be listed in the conference program and will indicate the meeting room assignment. How to Request a SIG Meeting
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